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I’ll be trying to maintain a bimonthly update schedule from here on, but be warned: the ‘new’ material isn’t necessarily new. These classic handcrafted pieces have stood the test of time, or at least of LiveJournal, and are now collected for your convenience and presented for your (possible) edification and delight.This site has been designed using RapidWeaver from Realmac Software, with the Structure theme from RapidWeaverThemes.
What’s New: May 2010
Essays
Gondor, Byzantium, and FeudalismSome historical parallels in ‘The Lord of the Rings’
Reviews
Young writers, take heed!A Reader’s Manifesto, by B.R. Myers
A glimpse of God, but a full-dress study of Man
The Mind of the Maker, by Dorothy L. Sayers
1977: The Big Bang of fantasy
A critical review in five parts1. From Zeus’s brow
How the books of 1977 transformed fantasy
2. Lord of the Rinky-dink
The Sword of Shannara, by Terry Brooks
3. Hero and fool
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
4. All roads to nowhere
Circle of Light, by Niel Hancock
5. Lost tales, unattained vistas
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien